{"product_id":"joy-in-service-on-rue-tagore-poems-9780374614218","title":"Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Is there any living poet with as skilled . . . an ear?\" (\u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e). The answer resounds: Muldoon is a true original. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince his 1973 debut, \u003ci\u003eNew Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. \u003ci\u003eJoy in Service on Rue Tagore\u003c\/i\u003e sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the highest accolades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, from artichokes to zinc, Muldoon navigates an alphabet of image and history, through barleymen and Irish slavers to the last running wolf in Ulster. The search involves the accumulated bric-a-brac of a life, and a reckoning along the way of gains against loss. In the poet's skillful hands, ancient maps are unfurled and brought into focus--the aggregation of Imperial Rome and the dismantling of Standard Oil, the pogroms of a Ukrainian ravine and of a Belfast shipyard. Through modern medicine and warfare, disaster and repair, these poems are electric in their energy, while profoundly humane in their line of inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fourteen previous collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGravel\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875461435666,"sku":"9780374614218","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a5e5a97-41b5-432c-a0a0-bae7fc2c347a.jpg?v=1756203392","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/joy-in-service-on-rue-tagore-poems-9780374614218","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}